ACTOR

Joe Don Baker

1936 - Today

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Joe Don Baker (born February 12, 1936) is an American retired actor, known for playing "tough guy" characters on both sides of the law. He established himself as an action star with supporting roles the Westerns in Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969) and Wild Rovers (1971), before his breakthrough role as real-life Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser in the film Walking Tall (1973). Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Baker found success playing both leading and supporting roles, including a mafia hitman in Charley Varrick (1973), a brute force detective in Mitchell (1975), a legendary baseball player in The Natural (1984), a police chief in the Chevy Chase comedy Fletch (1985), and a morally dubious private investigator in Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joe Don Baker has received more than 3,077,634 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Joe Don Baker is the 2,013th most popular actor (down from 1,839th in 2019), the 3,289th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,077th in 2019) and the 928th most popular American Actor.

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  • 3.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Joe Don Baker ranks 2,013 out of 13,578. Before him are Sofia Helin, Mel Blanc, Julian Sands, Bill Cobbs, Shashi Kapoor, and Danny Huston. After him are Michel Constantin, Mélanie Laurent, Matti Pellonpää, Ann Miller, Musidora, and Bella Darvi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Joe Don Baker ranks 189. Before him are Lee "Scratch" Perry, Vyacheslav Kebich, Michel Jazy, Han Seung-soo, Fernando Solanas, and Antonio María Rouco Varela. After him are Koji Sasaki, Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, Hazem El Beblawi, Stefano Delle Chiaie, Valentín Paniagua, and Polina Astakhova.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joe Don Baker ranks 3,289 out of 20,380. Before him are Mel Blanc (1908), Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857), Bill Cobbs (1934), Lizzo (1988), David Lee Roth (1954), and Jim Thompson (1906). After him are Trini Lopez (1937), Doris Hart (1925), Ann Miller (1923), Charles Barkley (1963), Sung Kang (1972), and Joe Pass (1929).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Joe Don Baker ranks 928. Before him are John C. Reilly (1965), Diane Baker (1938), Cherry Jones (1956), Josh Holloway (1969), Mel Blanc (1908), and Bill Cobbs (1934). After him are Ann Miller (1923), Sung Kang (1972), Jean Smart (1951), Marlon Jackson (1957), Barbara Babcock (1937), and John Gavin (1931).

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